BI: Roland Tanglao was involved in something like that or the company he works for does

LW: “We should look for candidate blogs written by real people. I know of at least 5, but they aren’t local: Missouri, Illinois, Oregon or Washington, California … They’re out there, we just need to find them.”

MF: let’s use LW’s form letter

LW: can we name our group something for the letter that doesn’t offend the Berkman Center?

LW can’t call it a Berkman Center project for a number of reasons, but we can say it’s a project of bloggers affiliated with the center.

MF: let’s get them a blog on Harvard’s server

Update on the blog server

WK: Berkman has hired a Userland guy to work on the server

Berkman is working on offering an alternative platform that they will also host

Frassle is one of the platforms they’re considering offering. WK didn’t name any others.

(Note: the link goes to a Yahoo! Group message that may require a login.)

Wendy has a pretty decent update; if after that we still want a sysadmin to come, we can work on that

Harvard blogs’ aggregators should now be able to handle Atom feeds

Locking the managing editor out of the blog

Apparently, if you delete all of the e-mail addresses in the managing editor’s box in the preferences on a Harvard Manila blog, the blog can lose all of its managing editors. There is no mechanism to prevent someone from being locked out of a blog. Please be careful!

MF: Purpose of the group

j: Do we need a real purpose other than just meeting?

MF: Yes. Proselytize blogging (like teach new bloggers, support development of new projects), conferences, research, and social stuff.